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FUERTE CROSSWORD

 

Welcome to the Fuertenews X-word No 10



Fuertenews X-word No:No:10

Clues Across;

1. Twain argument concerning opposing points. (4,3,4)
9. Supply alternative accommodation for the dispossessed. (2-5)
10. Lord returning fifty in an amusingly odd way. (5)
11. Quietly understated attic décor. (5)
12. Goal run giving one pleasurable tiredness. (7)
13. Harry maybe engaged in a desultory but pleasant pastime? (6)
15. Attractive carriage we hear. (6)
18. Reunite travelling group of attendants. (7)
20. Player losing fifty might be employed to fetch and carry. (sl) (5)
22. Discharges items for disposal. (5)
23. Casinos might be relocated to a watertight floating vessel. (7)
24. Entreat or applaud for a successful result. (4,2,5)

Clues Down;

2. Advert for Hock almost displayed for a specific purpose. (2,3)
3. Reliably obligated administrator. (7)
4. Requirement the French have for a compass pointer. (6)
5. Increase interval of show I had enlarged. (5)
6. Visible artillery heard used by Japanese C-in-C’s. (7)
7. Perpetrator and purveyor of un-bespoke clothing. (4-1-6)
8. Martian rule is to compulsory wear ‘beyond the sea’ colour. (L) (11)
14. Titrate constituents result in a shabbier condition. (7)
16. Agony witnessed as I hung in the throes of suffering. (7)
17. Old textile supplier using polymer ceramics, possibly? (6)
19. Key hole Kate might have been as inquisitive. (5)
21. Ditch fortification built in such a way. (5)

Answers ~ Across  ~ Down

1. east and west        2. ad hoc
9. re-house                 3. trustee
10. droll                       4. needle
11. tacit                       5. widen
12. languor                  6. Shoguns
13. potter                     7. prêt-a-porter
15. hansom                 8. ultramarine
18. retinue                   14. tattier
20. gofer                      16. anguish
22. emits                      17. mercer
23. caisson                  19. nosey
24. pray or cheer         21. fosse
 

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